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SubjectRe: Grr..
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Followup to:  <199903072359.SAA28650@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
By author: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903072316020.799-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, Alex
> Buell writes:
> +-----
> | I've just had someone bashing Linux because of the 4GB max physical limits
> | for Intel architectures. I've told him to fuck off and buy an 64bit Alpha,
> | but he mentioned that BSDI can use all 64GB on a Xeon's 36bit addressing
> | range. Why is Linux limited to 4GB and BSDI can address 64GB ona Xeon?
> +--->8
>
> Because BSDI is willing to play with Intel's reinvention of EMS memory in
> a 32-bit context.
>
> The reaction in the Linux community to said reinvention has generally been
> "eeeeeyyyuuuucch!"
>

BSDI probaby uses it as a ramdisk and swap to it, which is what Linux
probably will do.

-hpa

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are, and will be, large numbers of applications available for it."
-- Paul Maritz, Group Vice President for Platforms And Applications,
Microsoft Corporation [Reference at: http://www.kernel.org/~hpa/ms.html]

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